Memory Quotes

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A country without a memory is a country of madmen. — George Santayana
For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact. — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
History takes time. History makes memory. — Gertrude Stein
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History… — Stephen Fry
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it… — Leonardo da Vinci
All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love... — John of the Cross
How vast a memory has Love! — Alexander Pope
The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of… — Kenneth Rexroth
I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the… — Lucy Larcom
I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so… — Lewis Thomas
Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind. — Georg Simmel
Let your memory be your travel bag. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory. — Aldo Gucci
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same?… — Thomas Carlyle
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort… — W. Somerset Maugham
In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant… — Anne Bogart
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. — Lillie Langtry

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